this post was submitted on 07 Jun 2023
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COVID.
COVID changed everything. In an attempt to recover quickly, companies ramped up their abuses to new levels. While billionaires defending them all had their masks removed as the world collectively realized that it's impossible to make a billion without exploring others.
Toss in back to the office mandates and rising costs while those same companies post record profits...all while the population is Uber sensitive to that kind of thing, and we're in the middle of a not so quiet proletariat revolution.
Thanks to COVID a lot of people realized that despite the elites best efforts, the enemy isn't left or right, it's us versus the super rich. And it's having a trickle down effect.
The infinite growth ended. COVID moved everyone online that it could. There's no new people to move online, so there's no future growth to promise, and they have to make money off of their existing userbase.
Theres many different lines to be on though.
I'd like to add that the WSB-GME event pulled reddit into everyone's awareness, causing an influx of geberal FB and IG users to come pollute the site sith their influencing.
You know what, I never thought of it this way. Your timeline is definitely accurate.